The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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